>> todd is right that intellectual property is very important part of our economy. on the other hand, there's a lot of questions that have been raised in recent years about whether it is working well and whether it is creating too many monopolies, whether we have a good grasp on system and can balance the different values that are also in our system or whether intellectual property should have something of an absolute nature to it which is the direction that we've been moving in. it's kind of a scary direction. >> suarez: why would being able to protect your invention being b anti-competitive. aren't other agricultural companies free to develop a competitor to monsanto's soybean seat? >> well, you should be able to protect an invention. the question is how far? whach is the scope? that's what the court is being asked to talk about. what is the use in this case? what is making? what is the difference? and when we get to self-replicating technologies-- whatever that ends up meaning, it could mean a lot of things in the future, but the question is where to draw the lin